Odd factoids

[classic33]

The human body becomes 21 grams lighter after death. This indicates that the soul has departed the body, and that the weight of the human soul is 21.3 grams.

 

[Dave7]

The human body becomes 21 grams lighter after death. This indicates that the soul has departed the body, and that the weight of the human soul is 21.3 grams.

3 months later it is 75% lighter.

 

[classic33]

3 months later it is 75% lighter.

The soul or the body?

 

[colly]

Mount Everest is calulated to weigh just over 15 tonnes. Blimey. That's almost an area the size of Wales. Every year.

 

[Drago]

Wales is actually made from the carcass of an exceptionally large sperm whale what washed up on a Herefordshire beach in 1929.

 

[classic33]

Aside from being (at 58 letters) the longest place name in Europe and the longest valid, single-word internet domain name in the world, "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllll" was actually used as a secret password in the in the cult 1968 Jane Fonda movie Barbarella - writers of the the sci-fi kitsch fest had characters say it each time they wanted to gain entry to a secret resistance HQ.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Wales more specifically Snowdonia is where the early British Everest teams trained.

 

[Dave7]

Snowdon was originally in Norfolk but it spoiled the landscape so they sold it to north Wales in 1760.

 

[Drago]

The world's last colony of wild werewolves is in Norfolk.

 

[colly]

Norfolk. Six fingers good.

 

[Drago]

Only in Norwich do The youths in their hoodies greet each other with "gimme six bro."

 

[classic33]

American Chicago blues guitarist Hound Dog Taylor was born with polydactyly(extra finger) on both hands, although around age 41, he removed the extra finger on his right hand.

 

[NorthernDave]

Sean Penn is a distant relative of Laszlo Bic, who invented the biro.

 

[Drago]

The state of Pennsylvania is named after Sean Penn, whom is very vain, ee, eh?

 

[classic33]

In 1987, Penn spent 32 days in jail after hitting an extra.